Okay I know I only updated yesterday, but something odd happened today..
I've had a small odd miracle :P
I've been having trouble finding kids for the pirate party and I was down town just walking about.
Then I suddenly thought "I want a manicure.. I need a manicure....MANICURE!" and this is very odd for me, because I've never wanted a manicure in my life, I've never had one, never done one!
SO anyway I thought...I better get a manicure then.. lol
I passed one beauty place a friend reccomended but it wasn't open.
The second place seemed pricey so I walked on.
The third place my friend told me was "bad" and that I shouldn't go in, but for some reason I felt I should go there.
I went inside and said, "err....can I have a manicure??"
So during the manicure, I was talking to the lady (doing my nails) and it turns out, she had two daughters who went to church with her, but they didn't like the church very much. So I told her about my gap year/sunday school/the pirate party and she took my number and booked 2 places :P She's also considering coming along to my sunday school and bringing her friends families along!AND I got a discount! ;)
So two more kids signed up and georgous nails! What more could a gal want! :P
Over and Out! xx
P.S. Happy one month in Gib! <3
Updates for this week? I have 2 children signed up the Pirate Party! woowoop lol only 2, but hopefully God will answer our prayers and bring along those kids!!
I have also joined a youth/Bible/leaders group in Gib, which is pretty lush, people my age! yaaay! Might find some team leaders for the Pirate Party, or just people to hang out with =]...
Today I had to lead Sunday School alone (scary stuff!) and because it was a Baptism service I had some children who weren't church goers. None of them knew what baptism was. They knew you put water on the babies head but they didn't know why. I found that really surprising!!
Anyways I started off with the children making "dove namecards" (Holy Spirit visited in form of a dove etc). So then I did a demonstration, I "baptised" a rubber duck (ftw! :P) in a bowl of water and told the children why water was used, and what baptism means and why we do it.
The kids then ran over to the font to watch the real baptisms. They came back and we learnt a memory verse: Luke 3 vs 22.
I thought it was a good Sunday School =] One girl said to me, "I didn't come to church because I didn't know sunday school was fun!" happy days! One girl commented that her mum said she wasn't allowed to come to this church. Again the disagreements between donominations of religion out here are riddiculous. (I got some funny looks at youth group because I'm not a Catholic..) So please pray for these issues!
I am covered in mosquito bites =[ since I moved into my new home I've been eaten alive! (yummy?) I spose that's what you get for opening your balcony door at night :P
Last week I have done bits and bobs really. Lots of relaxing. Hopefully next week I will be more busy (I have to do some washing!?) and doing some more prep work for the Pirate Party (If we get more kids!) so please keep the event in your prayers! That children come along... And pray that I have the will power to keep going XD
Lets kick up the pace!
Hope the UK weather is okay! (I sunbathed in October, oh yeaaah...) XD
God Bless!
Over and Out x
Baptised Mr Tigerduck !
Oh yeaaah... even rubber ducks with stripes can follow God! (y)
Hello/Ola followers!
Yesterday I moved into my new home for the next two weeks! (The people I was staying with are visiting the UK) Its very nice =] I have a balcony in my room! It's a wonderful view of the bay, you can see Spain and Africa!!
I also have a new cat for two weeks, 14 year old "Nelson," Bless! He drinks from the tap (literally sitting in the sink) and likes humping pillows alot...
Anyway today was my first time riding on the back of a motorbike XD (Please forgive me mum, I'm still alive!) It was awesome! I gotta admit, I was a bit terrified about getting on it at first! The motorcyclists around here are not the best of drivers, but it was so exhilarating... I think I should swap my KA at home for one?? :P Maybe not lol...
Anyways I went to town, brought my regular mango sunshine smoothie, then got on the bus (90p return!) to "Both Worlds" aka the beach!
Its just soooo pretty! Why, oh why did I not bring my camera out today?? It was really sunny, and the water was really clear so you could see lots of fish! I'm glad I've found it at last, might be spending a lot of my free time down there :P ...
Anyways, I got back, and enveloped 10 letters addressed to 10 schools to invite lots of children to the Pirate Party! God has sent me 2 children for the Party so far which is good sign =]
However Sunday school yesterday, there was only one child! Not so good, and still no team leaders for the Pirate Party. I will hunt for some this week ...!
So please pray for the Pirate Party progression for children and team leaders to turn up and for sunday school numbers to go up again! (And for my safety on a motorbike :P)
Thanks for reading, and I hope to upload some photos next time and hopefully have more updates.
Song for the day? Switchfoot- "This is your life" =]
Over and Out x
Charlottey is very happy at the moment! =D
Pirate Party meeting was on today, we have 13 volunteers swapping duties for different days and its enough! I need to find some teenagers and team leaders but still, everyoneelse is sorted, happy doing other tasks. I think like me, the others are quite excited about doing some of the games and seeing children come into church!
Next week I will have to ask the local newspaper to advertise the party and send flyers to schools and hopefully children will come along! So thankyou for your prayers but please keep doing so! Still need some team leaders and children! :P
This week has been quite stressful overall. There has been a lot of disagreements and clashing and at one point I really just wanted to go home.
But things have sorta come together... Yesterday I spent chilling out in someones penthouse! The person had 3 ensuits, jacuzzi on the balcony (of 2!) and a private pool! So I spent lunch in the sun, swimming and drinking wine! Lovely...
On Tuesday was the Bishop of Gibraltar's funeral. It was a huge event! All the Scouts, Brownies, St Johns Ambulance, Cadet's etc were lining up all down the highstreet. When the coffin came out the Cathedral, there was complete silence. The coffin was then prossessed down the middle followed by six bagpipes and 4 drummers. Followed by police, then followed by Deans representing each church in Gibraltar and many more robed figures. The service was held in the square down Irish street. It was on the telly live and then repeated in the evening! It was a very interesting event to witness.
Today I recieved an email saying my reference to my UCAS is now attached! XD I can now send off UCAS and wait again for Universities to reply to application! Woowoop! (I also recieved my first letter from my Nan! Thankyou Nanny! =P xx)
So things are looking up more =] thankyou for praying for me, but please keep doing it! Especially for the Pirate Party and Messy Church day which are upcoming events in need of lots of support.
Thanks for reading, I don't think theres anything else to say... apart from over and out! x
Soooo after a stressful week of filling in UCAS, builders running in and out of the house, tidying my room (I was made to! :-O ) and basically being fed up, I came across Sunday School today!
Today was harvest and we had 15 children! Wow! There was a awkward moment at the beginning when a 6 year old looked like they was going to cry (super distraction skills to the rescue!), but today went very well!
We made a big collage of Harvest using bread, lentils, seeds, teabags, pasta etc... the process was very messy but it looked pretty good after. I then had to take the older children to the (tidied up- still room for improvement though..) "childrens room" to play some games and do a memory verse!
"Give thanks to God for he is good, his love endures forever- Psalm 107" and the kids went around the congregation after service repeating the memory verse and talking about what they did today! Results! :P Thankyou for your amazing prayers!
A 19 year old was also in church today with younger siblings in sunday school so I managed to drag her into volunteering at the Pirate Party ;)...
About that... Pirate Party Meeting Thursday! There have been some changes too! There is going to be no parents in the corner with the family watching, because we are hopefully going to have enough CRB checked people and First Aiders there! So more space for kids and less distractions!!
Because orginally, P2 said we weren't covered and that parents will need to stay in a creche in the corner to watch their kids whilst looking after younger siblings, taking up a lot of space, making age limits/differences very difficult to make between younger kids and older kids. They also thought it would be good if parents were there to keep their children "under control." (I have always rejected this idea, why bother bringing youth into the church if your not prepared to deal with them)so yeah, massive improvements!
We will just have to wait and see though... =] =] =]
So things are looking up =] Keep praying for me please! Something big is going to happen, I can feel it!
This song has kept me going the last few days "So help me God"-DC Talk. Have a listen =]
Thanks for reading!
Over and Out x
Thats my "YAY!" Face :P
..in Gibraltar..
Hi-de-hi campers!
This week has been a bit rough, I was told the Pirate Party might not even occur because we havn't got any volunteers (that want to work with children...plenty to do tea and coffee though...) PLEASE keep praying for the pirate party and that volunteers sign up! I am going to enter secondary schools and find some teeangers soon so pray I have confidence to do so...
...and then Monday I tripped on a step and my toe got a nasty rip and the toenail has split in half, so I've grown a rather attractive hobble at the moment! And yet again not much has been happening...
However todays been quite busy! So thats been quite uplifting =] Yesterday I went to a concert for King's Chapel Choir with guest Norway choir singers, quite a range of music, it was really good!
Today started off at 10am with Mother and Toddler group, lots of toddlers today and 2 babies! Lots of tantrums, lots of tickling and chasing kids around but I love it! Kids are so alive! =] Three mothers have taken my number so I should be babysitting soon, woowoop :P
We then had lunch in the rock hotel (expensive much?? £11 for a sandwich! VAT free :P) when P2 says, "Oh look, we have company!"... and a monkey was sitting by our table. The waiter then runs off and returns with a HUGE stick and a face of rage and starts chasing this monkey away XD was quite funny! So must warn parents when they come to stay for a week to close their hotel windows...!
I then went to a dyslexia group where volunteers help children/teenagers with homework and reading every 2 weeks. I REALLY enjoyed this, there are some right characters in there! I helped a little boy do his science homework then listened to a girl read (an Enid Blyton book...why are they ALWAYS about boarding schools??) it was really lovely =] it makes such a big difference just spending a little time helping a child to read numbers/letters, I'm definately going back :)
This was then followed by church choir practise (8 sopranos and 1 bass!) and was only half an hour! It reminded me of home! I miss singing at home... but it was followed by a drink down by the bay which was lovely as the temperature is 27.5 degrees today! They didn't have any magners though :( why is there no magners in Gibraltar?? :P they didn't have any in the pub last night either!...(Anyone care to send me a crate? :P)
Anyways things are still quite slow here and I still havn't visited any schools but I am settled down a lot more now. So please pray things will start to kick off for me! =]
I feel more positive this week and I think God is working away so I'm just going to have to trust him.
Song of the day? O Quam Gloriosum est Regnum - Victoria (youtube it!) I sang this at Bath residential singing course this year and I adore it! =]
Those are the updates for this week so far, so thanks for reading, keep praying and I'll update again soon :)
Over and out! x
